WackoWiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. MediaWiki

General Features WackoWiki wxWikiServer MediaWiki
Version
6.1.25
1.5.11c
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2024-04-11 (21 days ago)
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-11 (21 days ago)
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Ryan Norton
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
C++
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
NA
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
End users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements WackoWiki wxWikiServer MediaWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
built-in
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
none
Datastorage WackoWiki wxWikiServer MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
No
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki wxWikiServer MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
unknown
Yes
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki wxWikiServer MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki wxWikiServer MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki wxWikiServer MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Yes
No
Optional
Comments
Flat
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Links WackoWiki wxWikiServer MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features WackoWiki wxWikiServer MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
no
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability WackoWiki wxWikiServer MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Statistics WackoWiki wxWikiServer MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Optional
Output WackoWiki wxWikiServer MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Patch
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
No
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki wxWikiServer MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Keywords
Extras WackoWiki wxWikiServer MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
No
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki wxWikiServer MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
''' bold text '''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
'' italic text ''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
start line with blank space.
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
] centred text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
one
two
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
* two
* two.1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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